Category Archives: Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton’s introduction to Victor Kiernan’s Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare

Terry Eagleton’s introduction to Victor Kiernan’s Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare is available to read on the Zed books blog. The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this … Continue reading

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Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek

Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek in The Guardian. Here’s the great final paragraph (spoiler alert): Trouble in Paradise, with its unerring ear for political cant, is a book that everyone, not least the Masters of the Universe, … Continue reading

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